Symmetry

• The website Ontario Architecture website notes that three basic principals guided Georgian architecture in North America: symmetry, simplicity and solidity. Georgian buildings were designed with a minimal amount of detai on the exterior and a balanced facade.
  
  

Balance

• The National Park Service website explains that the placement of windows and doors visible from the exterior of Georgian homes were mathematically formulated to express a balance of design features across the exterior of the house. The placement of chimneys also moved from central in the roof (during the earlier baroque period) to a planned placement on the end of the house.
  
  

Roof

• The overall design and plan of a house changed throughout the Georgian period, including aspects such as the style of roof. The National Park Service explains that early Georgian buildings were usually designed with a two sided gambrel roof. In later Georgian architecture, the roof design had changed to a four-sided, equally-sloped hipped roof.